Library Ethics Greater Sins Chapter 26 Short-Wheghing & Cheating(in Business) The Twenty-Fourth Greater Sin: Short-Wheghing and Cheating (in Business)
The Twenty-Fourth Greater Sin: Short-Wheghing and Cheating (in Business)
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Chapter 26
The Twenty-Fourth Greater Sin: Short-Wheghing and Cheating (in Business)
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The twenty-fourth Greater Sin is short weighing or cheating in business. This is recorded in the Holy Qur’an and the tradition of Imam Ja’far as-Sadiq (a.s.) as related by Amash and the tradition of Imam RiÄa (a.s.) as reported by Fazl Ibn ShazÄn. Imam (a.s.) says: "Decreasing (fraudulently) in measure and weight.” (is also a Greater Sin). It is HarÄm for a seller to give less than the specified quantity or for the debtor to repay less than what is specified.
A terrible punishment awaits the doer of this grievous sin, according to the book of Allah (S.w.T.). A complete chapter of the Holy Qur’an deals with this topic. It says:
“Woe to the defrauders. Who, when they take the measure (of their dues) from men, take it fully, but when they measure out to others or weigh out for them, they are deficient. Do not think that they shall be raised again, for a mighty day, The day on which men shall stand before the Lord of the worlds?”
(Surah al-Muťaffifīn 83:1-6)
